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17 and 18 September 2022Passed
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On inscription at the entrance of the abbey
September 2022
Saturday 17
11:00 - 12:00
13:00 - 14:00
16:30 - 17:30
Sunday 18
13:00 - 14:00
15:00 - 16:00
17:00 - 18:00

Abbaye de Saint-Riquier - Centre culturel départemental

Place de l'église 80135 SAINT-RIQUIER
  • Somme
  • Hauts-de-France

Visit around the novel of Céline Ghys - Le Manuscrit perdu de Saint-Riquier

Discover the places and characters of this police investigation into local history
17 and 18 September 2022Passed
Conditions
On inscription at the entrance of the abbey
© Céline Ghys

Céline Ghys, Berckoise author, published her first novel, «Le Manuscrit perdu de Saint-Riquier», at Editions Nord Avril in the summer of 2021. This is a historical thriller between the ninth and twenty-first centuries, with the setting of the St Riquier Abbey as a common point between these two distant periods.
Here is the synospys: a young historian, Alice Lepelletier, arrives from Paris to give a lecture, at the Abbey of Saint-Riquier, on Nithard, Charlemagne’s grandson. On the same day, his former teacher was found dead at his home. She is the only one to identify a Saxon symbol of the Middle Ages on the body that indicates that he was killed and that he did not die of a simple heart attack. Arriving to convince a Police Captain, she embarks with him in a track game in search of the truth. Who murdered his former research master? Why? What had he discovered? A truth intimately linked to the story of an old Benedictine monk of the ninth century, victim of the war between Charlemagne and chief Saxon Widukind. At the end of her quest, Alice Lepelletier will make a discovery that could revolutionize all our historical certainties.
And for the European Heritage Days, we suggest you to discover the places evoked in the Roman and to learn more about some of the characters.

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Abbaye de Saint-Riquier - Centre culturel départemental
Place de l'église 80135 SAINT-RIQUIER
  • Somme
  • Hauts-de-France
On the slopes of the Somme Valley stands a majestic abbey of nearly 1400 years of history. It takes its name from an inhabitant of the vicus of Centule (the city with a hundred towers, today called Saint-Riquier) converted to the Christian religion, which evangelized the Ponthieu and was made holy at his death in 645\.
The monastery founded in the seventh century became a royal abbey in 632 by the protection granted to it by King Dagobert I. His importance was such that in 790 Charlemagne placed at his head one of the highest figures of his court, Angilbert, his adviser. Major abbey of the Carolingian world, it is destroyed in 881 by the invasion of the Normans. In total it will suffer of seventeen destructions. The eclectic architecture of the monument testifies to this turbulent past.
During the French Revolution, the old conventual buildings were sold as national property. Initially used as a quarry of stones, they will then receive many assignments, military (hospitals during the t
Tags
Monument historique, Édifice religieux, Musée, salle d'exposition, Lieu de spectacles, sports et loisirs, Espace naturel, parc, jardin
Access
Possibility to park on the forecourt of the abbey or in other car parks of the village. Access to the PMR to the site as to the exhibitions.
Vincent Thellier